I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

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• Philip Larkin:

  In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference

• Philip Larkin:

  I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all,

• Philip Larkin:

  Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

• Philip Larkin:

  I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems:

• Philip Larkin:

  Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

• Philip Larkin:

  You can't put off being young until you retire.

• Philip Larkin:

  Death is no different whined at than withstood.

• Philip Larkin:

  Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

• Philip Larkin:

  Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't

• Philip Larkin:

  Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of tur